Today’s idea: The creators of Superman and Don Quixote have a lot in common, as do their creations. They can also be used to illustrate the contrived literary comparison, a tradition going back to Plutarch’s paired “Lives.”Francois Duhamel/IFC FilmsMan of La Mancha.Associated PressMan of Steel.Culture | In a review in Open Letters Monthly, Robert Latona is less interested in assaying the book (“Men of Tomorrow”) than in comparing one of its subjects, Jerry Siegel, co-creator of Superman, to a si
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